SHARPSBURG — Thanks to a $2.2 million restoration project, the historic Burnside Bridge at the Antietam National Battlefield looks just like it did on Sep. 17, 1862, when 600 Union and ...

On Sept. 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Md., more than 23,000 young men of the North and South fell dead or wounded in the Civil War's Battle of Antietam. No one day of U.S. military combat before or ...

I have not spent enough time at the Antietam National Battlefield for ... and by 6:20 a.m. I was sitting in the parking lot for Burnside Bridge. Adjacent to the parking area was a beautiful ...

the bridge became important “when a small force of Confederates defending the critical crossing over Antietam Creek held off Ambrose E. Burnside’s 9th Corps for several hours,” the release said.

SHARPSBURG, Md. (AP) — The National Park Services says it’s closing the landmark Burnside Bridge at the Antietam National Battlefield for major repairs that will continue at least into next ...

(AP) -- Managers of Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg ... newspaper of Hagerstown on Thursday that the Burnside Bridge will remain closed until at least this fall.

At Antietam, Burnside forced his troops into repeated assaults across a narrow bridge dominated by Confederate ... futile frontal assaults. In January 1863, he launched an offensive beset by ...

SHARPSBURG, Md. (AP) -- The National Park Service says part of a stone wall of the Burnside Bridge at Antietam National Battlefield has fallen into Antietam Creek. The agency said Friday that it ...

newspaper of Hagerstown that the Burnside Bridge will remain closed until at least this fall. Problems surfaced in January 2014 when some stones from the three-arch bridge fell into Antietam Creek ...